Abstract :
On the theme “Engineering for sustainable use of the oceans”, the following topics were dealt with: underwater acoustic propagation, propagation effects in the water column, propagation in shallow water, bottom scattering, detection of seismic waves, biological classification, source localization in shallow water, tomography, radiated and ambient noise, sonar, detection of embedded objects, multibeam echosounders, transducers and arrays, oceanographic instrumentation, current measurements, wave and tide measurements, buoys and drifters, biofouling prevention, chemical instruments, water/sediment interface, optical instruments, underwater vehicles and systems, UUV systems and applications, control architectures for UVVs, UUV thruster dynamics and design, UUV fault tolerance and diagnostics, UVV control and guidance, image-based navigation for UUVs, UUV navigation, ROVs and subsystems, UUV docking systems, UUV control technologies, AMADEUS Gripper, robotic arm-vehicle coordination, GEOSTAR benthic station, specialized ROV/UUV systems, underwater virtual reality, underwater vehicles for science, underwater positioning, underwater communications, shallow water communications, underwater communication systems, global positioning, data acquisition and processing, data compression and data bases, marine GIS, modeling and simulation, remote sensing, HF radars, SAR and internal waves, SAR swell and coastal zones, ocean color and SST, radar laboratory experiments, signal, image, and information processing, motion estimation from video images, underwater computer vision and pattern recognition, textures in underwater images, segmentation of sonar images, 3D sonar vision, synthetic aperture radar, signal and data processing for bathymetry, signal processing for active sonar, multiple sources detection and tracking, signal and data processing for passive sonar, data processing for platform design and control, real time processing of video data, coastal management and ocean resources, ocean monitoring modeling and management, integrated coastal zone management, sediment transport, ocean resources technologies, coastal networks, coastal observing systems, and ocean energy
